The QuadraphonicQuad Craft Beer/Microbrew thread

[GOS]

Brew day went as planned, no hiccups. Just about to oxygenate and pitch the yeast, attach the blow-off tube and we're done. Should be ready for kegging in 2 weeks.

Time to share, this time with my mother-in-law. She quite enjoys sours so I opened a can of Steel Bender Brewyard "Blackberry Dynamite" (5.0% abv, 5 ibu).

I'm curious what you use for water for your beer?

 

[user 1679]

I'm curious what you use for water for your beer?

Almost always we use jugs of purified drinking water. The regular water here from the taps varies all the time in pH levels (she of course has a pH meter to check stuff) and it's an issue a lot of the breweries here have to deal with.

 

[Strilo]

I need to start home brewing again...

 

[von kulper]

This is a tasty sour from a newish brewery, Toasted Barrel, that specializes in the funk. They've pretty much got one beer that's straightforward, an IPA, and pretty much everything else is barrel-aged, soured, farmhouse/saison, etc... They do have a damn fine blonde ale, usually a pretty boring beer, but theirs is 7.5% and uses belgian yeast, and packs a ton of flavor.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Well, we had several great brews last night at Little Machine Beer in Denver but the most important part is that there was a "Class A Flare" when timbre4 and I got together and had a LOT of fun (no police was involved).. A truly fun , smart and witty guy...always great meeting wonderful people..

 

[GOS]

Live, from Key Largo!


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[Clint Eastwood]

Live, from Key Largo!


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All right...let's have a selfie

 

[GOS]

Not the best picture in the world. Key West Amber Ale.

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[Clint Eastwood]

Not the best picture in the world. Key West Amber Ale.

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That's cool...the way the picture is taken it looks like that glass is a gallon container

 

[GOS]

Ha! Yeah, odd angle. So Wednesday at home it will be a high of -10....and 70 and sunny here in Key Largo.


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[Clint Eastwood]

Ha! Yeah, odd angle. So Wednesday at home it will be a high of -10....and 70 and sunny here in Key Largo.


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Whoa...that's brutal...

 

[GOS]

Oh boy...


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[GOS]

Having a IPA from Cigar City Brewing, Tampa.


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[J. PUPSTER]

Not the best picture in the world. Key West Amber Ale.

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AAAhhhhh - BUENO DIAS MI AMIGO BRUJO - or should that be brew-ho. Damn it that looks good!

 

[user 1679]

Oh boy...
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They don't sell Cigar City stuff here in NM but I've scored a couple cans before in a swap and at a shop in Denver when I was up there....that's a dang fine brew.

This afternoon after spending a couple hours in the company of 20 or so loud screaming 5-6 year old girls (birthday party) I was *very* ready for a cold one. The party was at a place that took me very close to Steel Bender Brewyard to I stopped in after to fill a 32oz growler with their "Ettu Brute" IPA (6.9% abv, 65 ibu). As the name strongly suggests, it's one of these newfangled brut IPA's and it may just be the best one I've had so far, very crisp, effervescent.

 

[user 1679]

Well, we had several great brews last night at Little Machine Beer in Denver but the most important part is that there was a "Class A Flare" when timbre4 and I got together and had a LOT of fun (no police was involved).. A truly fun , smart and witty guy...always great meeting wonderful people..
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Awesome....love seeing form get-together pics. I know Abq ain't a big holiday destination (tho it is a beer destination now!)...if ever any y'all coming though this way....yeah.

 

[user 1679]

Calling it a weekend with a very super juice-hop bomb - La Cumbre "In the Money" dbl dry-hopped DIPA

 

[GOS]

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[J. PUPSTER]

Ya killin' me mon
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[GOS]

Woo hoo!! Dogfish Ale 90 Minute IPA. And...74 degrees, sunny and a Mahi Salad.


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